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cursing

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkɜːsɪŋ//
  • United States//ˈkɝsɪŋ//

The act of one who curses.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of cursepresent participle and gerund of curse

Etymology

From Middle English kursyng, from Old English cursiende, equivalent to curse + -ing.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of one who curses.

Etymology

From Middle English cursing, cursyng, cursunge, from Old English cursung (“cursing”), equivalent to curse + -ing.

Forms

plural
cursings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).